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Prosecutors: Man took voyeur videos of his friend's underage daughter at Milladore home

WISCONSIN RAPIDS - Wood County prosecutors filed a felony charge this week against a 48-year-old man suspected of hiding a camera in a teenage girl's bedroom.

Robert J. Wilhoyt, whose current address is unknown, faces one count of invading the privacy of a child using a surveillance device. Wood County Circuit Judge Greg Potter authorized a warrant Tuesday for Wilhoyt's arrest.

According to court documents, Wilhoyt was staying with a friend and his family in the village of Milladore beginning in the fall of 2017 and was on the family's cellphone plan.

Wilhoyt's friend was having problems with his cellphone in February and asked to borrow his phone Feb. 19 to call the service provider. The friend was on the call with the company for two hours and began looking through the files on Wilhoyt's phone to pass the time, according to court documents.

Wilhoyt's friend came across a file dated Dec. 25, 2017, and opened it. The man found it was a video recording that showed his teenage daughter's bedroom, according to court documents. The man's daughter came from a shower with only a towel wrapped around her, according to documents. The video showed the girl remove the towel and get dressed.

The man deleted the video of his daughter and three more without looking at them. He confronted Wilhoyt, who said he felt bad about taking the videos, according to court documents.

The man kicked Wilhoyt out of the house and then searched his daughter's room for any cameras. The man found a small camera connected to a 9-volt battery in his daughter's room, according to court documents. He turned over both Wilhoyt's phone and the camera to investigators.

When investigators talked to Wilhoyt, he told them he owed the man money, and the man would not let Wilhoyt move out until he paid it, according to court documents. The man told investigators he knew the man would find the videos of the teenage girl on Wilhoyt's phone; he hoped the man would get angry and kick Wilhoyt out of the house.

Wilhoyt told investigators all four videos on the phone were of the man's daughter, but the first three didn't show anything, according to court documents. Wilhoyt said the fourth video was too out of focus to identify the girl.